Louis Wu wins The Firestream Firefight!

• We were able to play 4 great games of Firefight LIVE on TRR. Each player is sporting a cool Participant medal and [hc]Louis Wu[/hc] is now the sole owner of the Firestream Firefight WINNER medal! That's pretty much as cool as Reconz. Really.
• Here are the 4 games played:
  • 18,819 with [hc]bs angel[/hc]
  • 17,160 with [hc]Insane54[/hc]
  • 20,337 with [hc]Louis Wu[/hc]
  • 18,370 with [hc]Jironmo[/hc]
• Big thanks to everyone who watched TRR last night! It was a lot of fun, and a great chance to get to know some other community leaders out there. Also, thanks go out to Kete and InsaneFREAKBOY for their work on The Running Riot and for having us all back again for the event!

In other news...

• A Halo news feed box has been added to the front page. The feed pulls from HBO's daily news posts.
• A bug was fixed in country HCS ranks. Your rank probably went down though :(
• The Game Finder by date has been improved to accept date ranges. Also, all columns are sortable now. Useful to find your best game in the last month, etc.
• Raised the requirements of the Ground Support classification
• SFX360 is holding a little contest and giving out some HC Supporter status! Check it out here...

It's payback time!

• bs angel from Hawty McBloggy
• Insane54 from Forge Hub
• Louis Wu from HBO
• Jironimo from Ascendant Justice

Player Classifications!

• There's a new system in place for Supporters called the Player Classification system.
• Basically, as a player, you can be classified based on your skills in certain parts of the game. These classifications can be very useful to other players looking to setup the perfect team, etc.
• Supporters will now see classifications that you meet on your player page. You can click any of these to see a list of players in that class.
• There are only 6 classifications, each with 3 grades right now. More are in the works and will be added as they are finalized. A complete list of possible classes will be posted soon.
• This has been in the works for a long time, and I couldn't have rolled it out without the help of the HC Classifications group and the active members in there!

Skill Graphs!

• I borrowed the Skill Graph from HaloSphere and set it up for Supporters so that you can see all of your ranked playlist skill graphs. The results are pretty interesting.
• If you're a supporter, check out your player page and click Skill Graphs down in the list of charts.
• I'm planning on making an 'all-in-one' graph that will be displayed on all supporter player pages in the future

And the Winner is...

[align=center][img]http://halocharts.com/images/custom/11_09_2009_1_03_53_Stickfest_fp.png[/img]

Congratulations to [hc]POWERJET[/hc] for putting up an amazing number of sticks during the month of October...
You've done an awesome job bro - you may now return to Social!
[img]http://halocharts.com/images/custom/11_09_2009_1_10_51_jet_fb.png[/img]

Read and Discuss Here: [url=http://halocharts.com/groupforum.php?view=topic&topic_id=20120&id=1352][i]CLICK![/i][/url][/align]

Thanks for playing!! Redemption

• Results for Sticktoberfest are almost ready to be shown. There's some big numbers!
• Major armor changes in HaloSphere. Armor is now split into 3 pieces, each bought and equipped seperately.
• There is a HaloSphere Score (HSS) and game ranking now
• The top titles on the site will now be random sayings brought in from the community and staff. Should be some real gems up there from time to time. :)

• I *think* all of the Ranked Living Dead issues have been worked out. If you're a supporter, collect player data again and let me know if you have any issues still.
• Added 3 new achievements to HaloSphere. If you're playing it though, please note that a stat reset is going to happen tomorrow, so don't waste your time on anything until then. The stat reset is necessary due to the number of glitches that were fixed, but lead to players having abnormally high stats.

Sticktoberfest Prize List!

• Here are the prizes for HaloChart's 1st Annual Sticktoberfest!
  • [img]http://www.turtlebeach.com/Portals/0/images/Products/EF_X31/main_logo_01.jpg[/img]
    1st place: A set of [url=http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/efx3/home.aspx]Turtle Beach X31 wireless headphones[/url]
  • 2nd place: 1600 Microsoft Points
  • Top 5 get Lifetime Supporter status if they don't already have it
  • Top 10 player page award for players in the Top 10
  • All players participating get a participant player page award
• Entrance to Sticktoberfest is now closed. 750 players are in!
• Winners will be announced a couple weeks into November

My Sigs for ODST!

• If you're a supporter, you can now access the My Sigs for ODST!
• HC Surpriser made the initial set of sig backgrounds, which look pretty sweet. Its a great start.
• Here are a couple examples:
  [img]http://halocharts.com/images/sigs/odst_HC%20Firestream_3.jpg?rb=482[/img]
  [img]http://halocharts.com/images/sigs/odst_HC%20Firestream_2.jpg?rb=573[/img]

I'm back!

• I was out on a trip for a week, so not a lot has happened.
• A few bugs have been fixed related to Ranked Living Dead and the non-supporter Player Sigs. You have to update those sigs manually now, but they will show your correct armor.
• The ODST sig builder is almost ready to go. Should have it up in the next day or two for Supporters.
• I'm going to announce the Sticktoberfest prizes this week also! Over 700 people are going to be a part of it!

• HaloSphere is an interactive game that is being written and integrated into HaloCharts. It's a completely free & highly addictive game that you need to try out. It's still in BETA stages though, but we need more test players!
• As the game is developed and improved, I want your feedback. So if you are interested in helping, please request to join the HaloSphere testers group and participate in the forum as you play. The game will remain in BETA for a while longer as the different aspects of gameplay are introduced.
• Bug Fixed: I believe player page pictures will completely update now.
• Bug Fixed: If you had trouble getting the correct armor to show up in Sigs, please try again now as this has been fixed.

Halocharts.com Announces the First Annual Sticktoberfest!

[img]http://halocharts.com/images/custom/10_02_2009_10_51_36_SFest_fp.png[/img]

[url=http://halocharts.com/grouppages.php?group_id=3829&page=Sticktoberfest]Click for the Deets![/url]

Member Page Comments

• So there's a new feature you'll see on all custom Member Pages. Other members can now leave comments on pages you create.
• You can turn this on/off per page and you have the option to delete any comments made on your pages.
• You'll get a notification message whenever someone leaves a comment on one of your pages too.

Looking for players for ODST?

• [hc]bs angel[/hc] over at [url=http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2009/09/29/need-firefight-halo-3-odst-teammates/]HawtyMcbloggy[/url] posted a Firefight Teammate list allowing players to sign up with their gamertags and timezone. This list will allow you to easily find other players in the same timezone as you. Check it out and get on the list!
• 

Win Halo 3:ODST and Johnson code!

• I've posted a quick contest for ODST. If you don't already have the game, check it out! Thanks to [hc]GuN Blinkz[/hc] for supplying the prize.
• 19 new headers added! Thanks [hc]HC Surpriser[/hc]!

TONS of ODST Leaderboards!

• The addition of weapon, medal, enemy and vehicle leaderboards brings the available total of ODST leaderboards into the HUNDREDS!
• There are a number of stats you can choose from for all weapons, medals, enemies and vehicles across Firefight and Campaign!

• The ODST High Score leaderboards have some new details and filters. You can now filter by players, difficulty and map. You can also click the players count to jump to the game itself on Bungie.
• The Halo 3 EXP leaderboards broke, but are now fixed.
• It will take a few days for everybody's stats to update with the newest high score details.
• Supporters now have a Collect Player Data link on the My Stats dropdown menu.
• All of the weapon/medal/enemy/vehicle boxes on ODST player pages now start out collapsed.
• Team Throwback has been added to the skill collectors

Happy Birthday Halo 3!

• There's some new stuff on ODST player pages: Stat breakdowns for Weapons, Medals, Enemies and Vehicles over Firefight & Campaign.
• There are a couple stats on these that aren't on Bungie, IE Points per game, kills per game, deaths per game and points per earned (for medals)
• Each of these stat tables are sortable just by clicking any of the column headers.

• The ODST high score leaderboards are filterable by difficulty now.
• I'm just about done with the main ODST stat collector. You'll be able to see much more on your ODST player page very very soon.

• Started fetching difficulty for High scores. After they have caught up I'll add a filter to the High Scores leaderboard.
• HC Redemption and I have fixed a few more graphics floating around with the green in them. Slowly but surely!
• Fixed the problem with Team Mythic EXP effectiveness

ODST Player Pages are available now

• You can now go to your ODST player page. Keep in mind that there's still a lot left to add to them, but I wanted to get them out so that people had something to look at.
• For the most part, the stats shown on them are the same as on Bungie, with a few new ones. Expect to see a lot more get added to them in the coming days.
• In other news, DDoS attacks have taken down HC twice today!
• Fixed a few more places where the old theme was showing through
• Leaderboards for [url=odstleaderboards.php]Campaign & Firefight Total Points[/url] are up!

Halo 3:ODST Leaderboards are LIVE!!!

• The first 4 ODST Leaderboards are live! They are quickly populating as more and more players are playing ODST. I've got plans for lots of LB's so keep checking back. You can get to the Leaderboards from the top menu on the site also by clicking ODST.
• A good chunk of ODST stat collection is happening now.
• ODST Player pages should appear in the next day or so.

More than 2,000 Hours Played!

Our own new hotness!

• There's a new look up & running on the site now. I ended up being very happy with how it turned out.
• There are some graphics still floating around that need to be updated for the new theme. Most notable are many of the award graphics. I'll get those fixed ASAP, but I just couldn't wait to release this new theme.
• Supporters! You can change your theme under My Account. Right now, you have the option of the cool new blue theme or the tried and true green theme that we came to love. You'll also have access to more themes as they become available.

Halo 3 Stats fixed!

• The stat collectors for Halo 3 have been fixed. There are likely to be some kinks in them since I had to completely rewrite them.
• Leaderboards should update tonight and then you should collect player data (if you can) and your ranks on your page will update.
• More to come!
• Halo 3:ODST and Halo 2 added to the "I want to Play" section.

The ODST Truck

[img]http://halocharts.com/images/custom/09_13_2009_12_40_29_odst_truck_sm.png[/img]

I recently visited the ODST Truck traveling the states giving players the chance to check out Firefight.

Click [url=http://halocharts.com/grouppages.php?group_id=1352&page=ODST%20Truck]Here[/url] to read about it.

Nothing to report, Sir.

• Absolutely nothing has been changed/fixed/updated recently.
• I'm pretty much going into a standby mode until ODST is released.
• Sometime in the next 10 days stat collecting is going to break due to the coming Bungie.net updates. When that happens, no new players will be able to be added to the site and no one's stats will update.
• It will then take me a week or two to fix the stat collectors and get the ODST collectors running and then setup the new ODST player pages. After that, you'll start seeing leaderboards and other ODST stuff as I get it added to the site.
• So anyways, hang tight, as a lot of things are going to get shaky around here around the time that ODST drops!

HaloCharts Top 10 #2!

• [hc]HC Fendabenda[/hc] posted the newest HaloCharts Top 10 (#2)!

• I'm sorry for the downtime. I think I'm through the worst of it now.
• All member and group custom pages have been restored!
• A whole bunch of database work is done now

• [hc]HC Surpriser[/hc] sent in 4 new headers (thanks!)
• Fixed a couple places where the new supporter star didn't appear.
• Had some database problems earlier today that I think should be all fixed now.
• New wallpaper sent in:

1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200 - By HC Misery

Supporter Changes

• There are now two types of supporters, but they have the exact same set of features. Yearly and Lifetime.
• All existing Supporters have been made Lifetime Supporters!
• All Supporters now have access to Halo Wars player pages!
• All Supporters will have access to all future game stats and features for all upcoming games, like ODST and Reach!
• The HaloWars Supporter status is no more, it is now just part of being a Supporter

Other Changes

• The 2nd button bar that was setup for Halo Wars is no more. It has been merged into popup menus for the main bar. This allows me to expand the site for the other games also without cluttering up everything.

• Added BBcode quick links to the quick reply box
• Fixed the site theme to look better on large screen resolutions
• Trying out new fixes to kill double posts for topics and replies
• Fixed post counts to be your complete overall count if you are in any of the main HC forums
• Fixed scores from showing up in non-main forums
• Added some notes to the Top 10 boxes in the main forums to clarify what the list is showing, like top 10 topics for that forum specifically.

• HC Surpriser sent in 11 new sig template bgs: CQBFire, EODdark, EVAbright, HayabusaFire, MarkIVGlare, MarkVDark, ODSTburn, ReconCream, RogueBlast, ScoutSky, SecurityFlare
• Here are a few examples:
  
  
  
• Fixed the exclude griball option from the medal/weapon top charts to now exclude mayan grifball.
• Grifball Legend sent in 20 new site headers!

• Added new BBcode to create links to HC & Bungie stat pages: [hc]tag[/hc] and [bungie]tag[/bungie]

• There is now one common chatbox between all of the main site forums (instead of their being a different box in each).

Forum Changes

• The main forum has changed names to Halo Talk.
• There is a new forum for Off-Topic discussion
• Great Post scores are available in all main HC forums (Halo talk, Off-Topic, Videos and Teams)
• The bottom stats and birthday list now show in all main HC forums.

Recon Anyone?

• A New Challenge - Recon up for grabs...
Click Here For Details

• Added unread post counts to the My Groups dropdown menu
• Fixed a few bugs in 'Request to play!'

Halocharts takes a look at HaloScreenShots.com!

"As for me and my friends, this is how we roll"

OK, it's time to give your All-In-One desktop printer/scanner/fax a break and stop trying to get a decent print of those amazing Halo 3 moments you've taken the time to capture in Theater!

Check out HaloScreenShots.com, they have an amazing product that provides the remedy for getting the all those awesome screenshots off the screen and into your living space...

I recently visited the HSS headquarters in Austin, Texas and I took the opportunity to jot a few things down about the company, the experience and the product...

Click here to Check it Out!

Fine Art Meets Halo's Finest Art

I want to play!!!

• You might have noticed the little white xbox 360 controller icon up on the top left of the site now. This will take you to a new section intended to show you players looking to play right now. You can also use this section to put in your request to play along with a brief description.
• This button is available to everyone and I hope it gets a lot of use.

My Groups Dropdown Menu

• For Supporters: There is now a drop down menu that will appear if you hover over My Groups. This allows you quick access to any group forums you are a part of.
• The reason this is supporter-only is that the menu gets in the way with the google ads that appear for non-supporters. Its against the Google TOS to have the menu appear over the ads, so for that reason I cannot enable the dropdown for non-supporters.

Tournament!

• HC Surpriser is running a tournament!
• HC FendaBenda posted an interview with our very own Super Secret Ninja Admin, StaticFlatline

New Top Menu!

• The top menu of the site has been cleaned up to be a little more friendly to the eyes and allow for expansion of the site without as much clutter. Many people had suggested to me in recent weeks to look at this, but special thanks to Prillan for making some nice mockups that really helped me finalize the way the menus work.

• A nice, anonymous, non-evil hacker informed me of a big security hole in the website that has now been fixed.
• 100% version of the Medals earned and Weapons used awards are up!
  
• I took out Firebomb and Bomb Explosion from the weapons used percentage, but they will still show up in the list.

• Fixed a bug in the view counts on player and group pages (not stats pages)
• Reset all page counts to 0 (again, not stats pages, just custom pages for members and groups)

• Boss Vos setup a nice page on what HC bans for and why, in relation to leaderboards. If you see a leaderboard ban on your page, there's a new link called (Why?) next to it that takes you to the page.
• Smyf's latest HC news has been posted

Official HaloCharts Twitter!

• The official HaloCharts Twitter is now http://twitter.com/halocharts
• You can still follow Firestream if you'd like, but I'm going to try to keep the HC updates on the Official HC Twitter.
• xorth pointed out a bug in the forum ignore system, that has now been fixed. Thanks xorth!

Pages Directory Added

• There is a new top link called Pages that will take you to a directory of public Group and Member Pages.
• HCPL link has been renamed to Teams

Member Pages!

• Much like the new Group Pages feature, Supporters can now setup pages that extend their main player page.
• You'll see a new My Pages button in the navigation bar now. Other members can see pages you create by clicking Pages at the top of your player page.
• You should also notice a change to your 'My Page' button; this button has been renamed to 'My Stats'; click this to go to your player page.
• This is a fantastic way to personalize your player page by adding more information about yourself, or tips & strategies you'd like to share, etc.

• There was a fairly bad glitch in the HCS formula that involved the sniper headshot medal. They were being weighted much higher than some other more difficult-to-get medals. This has been fixed.
• I would imagine that pretty much everybody's score will drop some as a result of this.

Group Pages!

• If you are a supporter, you can use the new Group Pages system for any groups you own.
• Basically, Group Pages allows you to create custom pages for your group members or for the world to see. You can create as many pages as you would like, and each page is editable with a nice WYSIWYG editor.
• Its really up to you to decide what kind of content you want to have in your group. Make a page to better describe your group or its members. You could make a page to talk about upcoming group events or contests. You could even use group pages to create entire sub-sites as part of HaloCharts.
• The possibilities are endless really. I'm excited to see how people use this system over time. Please let me know if you have any problems using it!

Group Layout Changes

• To go along with the addition of Group Pages, I cleaned up the layout of the group system. There are now some common links across each part of a group.
• The edit group icon has been fixed to show the correct icon
• A Pages link has been added under My Groups as well as in the Group Forum bar.

Contest #9 - Best Multi Kill Screenshot

• I just posted the details for Contest #9!
• Here's the prize:
  

New Ranks Updated

• Many of the requirements for the New Ranks have been altered. Most of the ranks available are a little easier to obtain now. Thanks to Pete VenkmanPHD for helping revise them.
• Your Member Referrals count will show up on your page under Forum Score, if you have any.
• 5 new header images - Thanks Grifball Legend!

Speed! Completely on new server.

• I added a playlist filter to the Teammate Recommendation list.
• The site is now running completely on the new server. Once DNS updates for you, you should notice the site loading faster than ever. I've already allowed for the Staff and Testers group to test out the site running on the new server and the results have been exceptional!
• One side effect of the move is that player page screenshots won't show up until your page updates again. So if you're a supporter, go ahead and Collect Player Data again.
• One thing that has sped up drastically is the Game Loader. 5000 games only takes minutes now!

New Referral Medal

• When new people register on the site, there's a box where they can type in the tag name of the player that referred them. This has been on the site a long time, but I've never done anything with the data. Tonight, I setup a new award to give out to those that have referred players to register here.
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New Server!

• We have another new server to help out with speed!
• Group, Country and State leaderboards have been turned back on
• The EXP since TU2 leaderboard is back on
• One side effect of this new server is that game data and stats collected today will need to be recollected. Sorry about that!

• Added a login box to the top of the site, if you aren't logged in
• Made the player search box a little smaller
• For Supporters, there's a new link on your page called Teammate Recommendations. Its down in the chart links list at the bottom of your page. Basically it lists out the 10 players you play the best and worst with, based on stats like winning percentage and k/d spreads. Its a best guess type of thing, but its still useful for finding out who to avoid when you play!

• Fixed some tabbing issues when you create new messages or forum posts
• Still sprucing up the site more with nice graphical buttons instead of text links

• Replaced some text links around the site with nicer graphical icons.
• Took down the link to the IRC chat as most people use the forum chatbox now.

Message System Updates

• You can now preview messages before you send them
• There are now quick links for BBCode next to the message body box.
• If you use your friends list, you can now quickly select a friend when you are sending a message instead of having to type their name in.
• Automatic Happy Birthday messages will now be sent each day.

Contest #8 - Big Team Battle Royale

• Boss Vos has just posted the details for Contest #8!
• Here's the prize:
  

New Prophets! Updated

• EgonSpenglerPHD and Essentre have joined the ranks of the Prophets!
• 



• New Prophet Awards!!

BBCode quick links when posting

• Prillian graciously sent me some code to allow for quick links to add BBCode to posts in the forum.

Game Finder By Date Updates

• Added Headshots for each game included average and total
• Added a per game stat for each weapon and medal used. This will appear in the total that appears when you hover over the weapon or medal icon
• Added Overall K/D into the list of players played with and against

Finally, Member Forum Post Lists

• I finally put in a way to view all of your forum posts and a way for you to view all posts made by other users.
• First, you can go to any player page and Forum Posts is now clickable to get to their list of posts
• Also, in a topic in the forum, you can click the post count over under the poster's name to be taken to their list of posts.

New Player Page Medals

• Weapons Used:
  
• Medals Received:
  

The Sentinel Beam!

• Sentinel Beam stats are now loading on player pages
• There are leaderboards up for Sentinel Beam now
• You can create Sentinel Beam goals now also
• The Bungie vs World EXP Leaderboard is up
• There are 2 new links at the top of the site: New Ranks & Twitter

Time to Kick Some Assassinations!

• Play in the special Bungie vs the World playlist or any ranked playlist and get to Back-Smackin'!!

CLICK!


• This challenge will close on 7/7/2009 at 11:59 pm.
  Players can submit up to SEVEN games HERE; all assassinations within those games will be tallied up and compared against other players in the challenge.
  The winner will be determined on 7/9/2009.



• Prize to the winner will be one custom canvas image, framed and shipped compliments of HaloScreenShots.com.
Players, This is one awesome prize!!!

Happy Bungie Day!

How Many Players Will Get Recon on Bungie Day?

• All you have to do is guess how many will get the almighty RECON armour.

As an extra, guess how many people currently have Recon.

Make your guesses here! CLICK!


• This challenge will close on 7/7/2009 at 11:59 pm.
  The winner will be announced when we have all the info we need.



• Prize to be determined.

Good luck and happy hunting!!!

This contest brought to you by Halbarand.

• The HCS change I made yesterday has been reverted almost completely. I left in one change I made, but its not something that will hurt your score, only help.
• I have had comments in the past about counting multiple 50's into the formula, and while I'd love to do that, I can't without it being unfair to non-supporters. The only way I have an accurate count of how many 50's a player has is to look at all of their games which is currently only done for supporters.
• Anyways, my changes shook up things too much. I had a lot of complaints during the night, so I see the error in my ways and have reverted to yesterday's formula plus one tweak. I'd love to be descriptive in why and what I changed, but its pointless now.
• I do not plan on changing the formula again as its pretty impossible now to change it without shaking things up too much, and I certainly don't want a revolt!!

• Fixed all of the k/d ratio leaderboards. They were broken and I had no idea!
• The MLG page emblems have been taken down for the moment. I need to have a better way of keeping up with who is actually an mlg pro and who isn't. The problem is all of the tag renames, etc, that happen so often with pro accounts.
• Adjusted HCS some. :)

Playlist Leaderboard & Rank Changes

• I've been working on a rewrite of the Playlist EXP leaderboards. The reason is mostly for performance, because the current way I'm doing the leaderboards and stats is slow and inefficient. I should be finished soon.
• I'm actually done with the rewrite of the playlist ranks and leaderboards. There's probably a few bugs in there as its a complete rework on the backend to be faster. These ranks work like medal and weapon ranks, meaning that they update at night and only for the top 1000 for each playlist.
• If you're in the top 1000 you'll see your rank on your player page. The ranks also link to the leaderboard now.
• As usual, you'll see these changes after you Collect Player Data (Supporters)

HaloCharts P.O. Box

• HaloCharts has a P.O. Box now! We can accept cash supporter donations now. This has been requested for quite a while now.
  • HaloCharts.com
    P.O. Box 166
    Capshaw, AL 35742

More Leaderboard Rank Changes

• Ok, I had to do more changes to how leaderboard ranks are computed. Now, only if you are in the top 1000 for a weapon/medal, will the rank appear on your player page. The change involves computing the ranks at night, instead of during the day all day. Because of this, I'm only going to compute the top 1000 for each weapon/medal.
• This change allows the site to cruise during the day without the slowdown of any rank calculations. It will also allow me to speed up the actual leaderboard lists (which are turned off until I finish the changes). It also allows for stat updates to happen faster.
• If the rank appears on your page, you can click it to go right to the leaderboard (once they get turned back on)

• Fixed a bug that was keeping Action Sack game stats from collecting
• Fixed a bug that was keeping certain ranks from updating

Campaign Challenge Leaderboards Updated

• All Games processed by 6/26/09 have been included in this update


• Cortana and Halo levels have been added to all leaderboards.


• We still have plenty of games to process for the next leaderboard update. We are also working to catch up on awarding player pages.



• Campaign Challenge Leaderboards will begin closing...
  If you want a spot on them, your opportunity is now. We will be closing one leaderboard every other week - starting with Sierra 117. On July 13th, we will close the leaderboard for Sierra 117 for good... So, want the top spot? Get on it... Once it's closed - it's closed for good. As mentioned, one leaderboard will close every other week; that means the Crow's Nest leaderboard closes July 27th.


That is all for now... Game on.

Halocharts' Road to Recon Winner!

• Antagonist Extraordinaire, The GDubsMan just capitalized on a golden opportunity to grab some new Spartan duds for his MatchMaking excursions... That's right, 'G' completed the entire Campaign Challenge and earned every possible award (60 of them to be specific); add to this the completion of 3 levels of Mythic Campaign and some seriously impressive carnage stats and it's easy to see how this guy deserves the grande prize of Recon Armor.
  Congratulations GDubs... Go forth, and make us proud.


• Special mention also goes out to Thug Naztyyy for his efforts in finishing out the requirements for Recon; unfortunately for Thug, GDubs edged him out by only 1 hour. Still very impressive performance by Thug during and after the contest... For his second place prize, Thug has been awarded 4,000 Microsoft Points.


• Thank you to all the players who have been playing, still playing and soon to be playing Campaign Challenge.

Player Page Ranks are back!

• I've made some performance tweaks to the way I computed player page ranks for leaderboards, weapons and medals.
• Supporters will once again see playlist leaderboard ranks as well as weapon and medal ranks (you still have to expand those)
• I'm hoping my tweaks will keep the site from getting too slow, like it was a few weeks ago. I'll be monitoring that closely.

9 new sig templates!

• Essentre kindly put together 9 new sig templates! Here's 3 at random:
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• I added a Most 50s Leaderboard
• You can now click Player Salutes on player pages and see a list of who saluted that player.
• A Full Friends List link has been added below the 5 Random Friends box.
• You now have to have a forum score of at least 5 before you can post New Topics in the main forum. To all the newcomers, its easy to get forum score if you reply to existing topics and make good replies. People are bound to Great Post you!

• Essentre made 12 more sig templates! Here's a sample:
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• There's a slick montage video up now of the Spirits of Fire vs HC Staff challenge that took place a few weeks ago. Lots of betrayal action to be seen here! Youtube Link

• I added a Quick Reply box to the bottom of topics.